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Sentient beings is a technical term within Buddhism, broadly denoting beings with consciousness, sentience, or in some contexts life itself. Sentient beings are composed of the five aggregates, or skandhas: matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness.
In modern Western philosophy, sentience is the ability to experience sensations (known in philosophy of mind as  qualia ). In Eastern philosophy, sentience is a metaphysical quality of all things that requires respect and care.n Jainism, all matter is endowed with sentience; there are five degrees of sentience, from one to five. Water, for example, is a sentient being of the first order, as it is considered to possess only one sense, that of touch. Man is considered a sentient being of the fifth order.